Our Slums to Success appeal focuses on our innovative work with young people to provide clean water and sanitation and create youth/household income for 6,000 people – focusing particularly on two major slum communities in Monrovia.
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Young people in Liberia have grown up in a country scarred by civil war. The conflict, which ended in 2003, claimed the lives of over 200,000 people and destroyed most of the country’s infrastructure. Around 70-80% of young people are under or unemployed, and almost one in five of all deaths in Liberia are caused by waterborne diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea. There is an urgent need to improve livelihoods of slum dwellers and to improve water and sanitation facilities.
This project will contribute to the significant improvement in the lives of 6000 slum dwellers (particularly women and young people) in two slum communities in Monrovia, Liberia. Slum dwellers will gain increased access to safe drinking water and sanitation and receive training and support to establish small businesses. They will benefit from increased access to savings and credit groups, DRR activities, and be mobilised to become active change agents in their communities.